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Stacey chats with Maggie Doyne, founder of BlinkNow in Surkhet, Nepal and the 2015 CNN Hero of the Year. We wanted to find out about Maggie’s new activities since we last chatted with herfor our book 20 WOMEN CHANGEMAKERS

The Women’s Eye Reflections for the New Year 2012–#4

We’re into the new year now and the balloons have been launched, but we think there’s still time to reflect on what more of our women had to say about their world as they saw it in 2011. Here are some quotes to ponder as we all take on the challenges of the coming months…

“I had been dealing with so much rejection for so many years I realized I was in a miserable place. I was defining my personal happiness on something that was completely out of my control. I realized that was insanity. That is not the way to live your life.”

“I founded the organization in 1993. We believe that communities and women who know their own issues are able to devise strategies and solve the troubles they are faced with provided they can become part of the decision-making…”

“I was diagnosed with a brain tumor while in law school and was given six months to live. It was an extremely stressful time for me. Yoga gave me the opportunity to de-stress, to breathe, and it gave me the ability to think.”

“I am healthier in mind, body, and spirit than I was before having cancer. It heightened and intensified every experience — both good and bad ones — in my life. I had an innate sense that the only thing I could do was to embrace every part of this experience as my teacher…”

“I would like it if COPERMA could succeed at helping the girl-mothers and the victims of sexual violence and also to help them psychologically. Someone who is traumatized can’t work; they have trouble continuing to breathe and live. I want to effectively help the rural populations because they’re often forgotten.”

“We should talk about the victims who are going on and trying to live their new lives, who are heroic, who are suffering with a lot of pain, some who have been injured forever, and some who have lost loved ones…those are the people I focus on, who inspire me, and remind me what it’s all about.”

“Self-expression, the idea of presenting yourself in an authentic and personally original way, is vitally important. It’s really all you have to leave of yourself– the clear impression that you were here on earth.”

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